Get Out the Vote: A Voter Mobilization Training for Young People With Cristina Calvillo-Rivera
Cristina Calvillo-Rivera
On October 1, 2020, Making Caring Common hosted a training led by Cristina Calvillo-Rivera on how youth can mobilize their peers to vote.
This training covered barriers to voting and how to overcome them, the importance of this election and this moment to youth personally and collectively, and how to persuade peers and family to vote. It also engaged youth in making a plan for mobilizing their peers and identified best practices in carrying out that plan. The training was part of our Get Out the Vote: Voter Mobilization and Civic Education Series.
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About the Speaker
Cristina Calvillo-Rivera has over 10 years of experience in educational programming for non-profits with a specific focus on creating curricula for training programs on issue-based campaigns and leadership development. Her experience began in her home city of El Paso, Texas where she organized and educated the community on LGBTQ issues and assisted youth with organizing Gay-Straight Alliances at their high schools. Cristina continued her work on engaging youth by working with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) of New Mexico where she created youth educational programming on DWI and underage drinking prevention.
In Washington DC, she served as Deputy Director of Training and Consumer Education at Young Invincibles and later as the Director of Young Adult Engagement and Advocacy where she helped lead YI’s youth engagement strategy, developed curricula and facilitated trainings and community workshops across the country and trained young adults on economic policy impacting millennials. Cristina served as the Training and Curriculum Specialist for the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports where she developed the first community development program in its 80-year history. Currently, Cristina serves as the Training and Engagement Director at Instituto, where she leads their training and leadership development programs in Arizona.
About the Series
Get Out the Vote: Voter Mobilization and Civic Education Series is a new, non-partisan initiative designed to enable young people to become voter mobilization leaders.